Welcome to Orientation to Education! Your growth and learning is the most important thing in this course. The purpose of the blog is to communicate your thoughts and ideas with your classmates. You are expected to submit one blog each week in response to the question(s) given. you will also reply to at least one of your classmate's blog entries.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Week1 - Welcome
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I have run in 2 half marathons. Too bad that doesn't count for one whole marathon.
ReplyDeleteI was in a bad accident January 2008. I was declared with a Traumatic Brain Injury, but now I am almost fully recovered. My memory sometimes fails me and I get really bad headaches.
ReplyDeleteI am half way through the P90X workout series. This is crazy because I was only doing the elliptical a couple of times a week, dance class once a week, and sand volleyball twice a week. Those did not prepare me for the aches my body is going through now...
ReplyDeleteFor as long as I can remember, I have had the desire to help out God in anyway that is possible. When I was young, my imaginative mind led me to desire to become and Angel and fight in God's legions of Angels against Satan. Eventually, when I grew up and realized that a human does not become a Angel, I happily accepted the true role of a Christian human, which is spreading the Word of God, whenever possible, to ensure that more will join the followers of Christ in an incomprehensibly joyful place that goes on forever and ever.
ReplyDeleteHi, guys! I fixed the Comment as...thing I was talking about today. Now you can follow the directions on the handout I gave you. So when you go to the box below your comment, you can now select Name/URL.
ReplyDeleteI hope this helps. Please email me or call me if you have any questions.
When I was about nine months old I had a huge red lump growing out of my throat. It ended up being a tumor which had to be removed. After the surgery I then got staff infection and was in the hospital for three weeks. I now have a scar on my throat to show for it.
ReplyDeleteWhen i was in my in high school i used always had to pick my brother up from his football practices. One night when i was picking him up he went to reach for my water bottle, which made me mad so i went to grab it back from him. When i looked up i realized i had ran into a concrete pole outside of my school. My mom huge safari van had to be towed off the pole, and from that point on i was known as the girl who ran into the pole outside school.... :)
ReplyDeletewhen I was a junior in high school I played basketball and during a summer league game I tore my ACL, MCL and ruined majority of the cartilidge in my knee. I now have eight screws and a metal rod!
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a military family and as a result, I moved around. A lot. I've lived in Texas, Maryland-three times, Maine, and Missouri. Although I have lived in many different places and had to leave friends and homes behind, I loved being able to explore a new place. I've been to six different elementary schools, two middle schools, but just one high school. I've lived in Missouri for seven years now, but every now and then I wish that I was somewhere new...that probably explains why I've been to four different colleges in three years. I enjoy the different environments and seeing new places, so having five classes at Lindenwood and one class at UMSL this year will be as much a fun experience as it is a challenge.
ReplyDeleteWhen i was four years old, my mom put on some music in the living room. I was so excited that i ran from one end of the room to the other and threw myself in the air (trying to do a dance move i guess) and i ended up doing a round off. My mom said i should try gymnastics and i said ok. The next week i was signed up for classes and that began a 10 year journey of traveling around the nation competing. By the time i was 14 when i decided to quit, i had won state two years in a row and gone onto to get second in the nation. I can still do all of my tricks today!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in daycare we were getting a new playground and they hadn't finished picking up the extra washers, nuts, and bolts. I desided one day to take a washer home. At home I put it on as a ring. And what do you know it won't come off. Which lead to a hospital visit were the maintenance guy had to use a wire cutter to get the washer off my finger. That was the first time I bit my mom.
ReplyDeleteThis is great to learn these interesting facts about you guys. Alex and Anna, thanks for sharing about your traumatic experiences! We are blessed that you are with us today.
ReplyDeleteBen, I admire your passion and your zeal for evangelism.
Kayla - my brother has a similar story. He was driving the hand-me down Ford pinto that my sister had to drive for 2 years, then I drove for 2 years, then it was his turn. He had been 16 for two weeks and he was going around a turn at McNair Park in St. Charles and he didn't turn enough and ended up getting the pinto airborne and stuck on 3 yellow concrete posts sticking out of the ground. It wasn't fun for him - but makes for a great story.
I really enjoy reading about each of you - can't wait to see Russ do some gymnastics for us!
I've swam with sharks a total of five times and had the expressed pleasure of hugging and petting a nurse shark that took an immediate liking towards me at the aquarium where i worked.
ReplyDeleteI must say Other Ben, I've always thought that humans, if they are truly Pure at Heart can become an Angel in Heaven after death...Perhaps you'll get your wish after all.
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ReplyDeleteDo you scuba dive? I have my license and have gone diving in the Carribean a few times. I admire you - I think I would freak out if I saw a shark.
RUSS- where did you do gymnastics at? Did you grow up around here? My son and one of his friends would like to take lessons, but most of the places in the area are "for girls."
ReplyDeleteDebbie Bridges- That is awesome that your son wants to do gymnastics, it is a great sport! I did not grow up in the St. Charles area, but i only live about 1 hour from LU in the town of Wildwood. I did gymnastics at a place called Meyers Gymnastics. I enjoyed it very much!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 3 years old I was running in my grandparents backyard and I tripped and cracked my head open on the corner of a flower bed. I now have a scar on my head that looks like teeth marks. I dont remember anything before that.
ReplyDeleteHi i am chris. I am from a small town of 4600 people in northern illinois. I have a brother who is a freshman and loves to bowl and play baseball. I was well play baseball and bowl which i am bowling here at LU.
ReplyDeleteAndrew- i also have cracked my head open but it was my junior year in high school. we were playing football and someone came and bumped heads which left me with a concussion and 5 staples in my head. also dont remember a darn thing.
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Dylan for as long as i can remeber mke and twin brother would participate in any sport possible which i have over a 100 awards in 6 different sports and is why im at LU playing volleyball
ReplyDeleteI've worked at Bass' River Resort for 5 years, where people stay in cabins, go camping, and floating! I meet 20-100+ new people everyday from all over. I love my job and making people smile.
ReplyDeleteHey Ben, I bet it was really cool swimming with the sharks I'm so jealous. This summer in Cozumel I swam with the dolphins this was such an amazing experience.
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Kayla I have never experienced such pain until I had my first Kidney stone at the age of nine. Sadly, this was not the last one I have experienced a total of seven. I have pasted all of them in a few days at the hospital except for one I had to have surgery.
ReplyDeletehey andrew that really stinks that you have a scar on your forehead...at least people can pick you out in a crowd right? when my brother was little he had chicken pocks and he has a scar on his forehead to it reminds me of harry potter...lol
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Jon. Unlike most people here at LU, I don't play any sports and im sorry but i have no fascinating hobbies to make up for it either. Used to play football in high school till I blew my knee out senior year. I had two more acl replacements after that (3 total) so i guess that kinda explains why. Now im just going to school so i can eventually teach and coach
ReplyDeleteHey my name is Hayley. I won the gold for sparing (fighting) at the 2000 Junior Olympics in Taekwondo.
ReplyDeleteDebbie,
ReplyDeleteBoth of my boys take gymnastics at the perfect gym in North O'Fallon. It is a brand new facility with all of the gymnastics equipment imaginable. Block pit, long tramp, bars, beams, spring floor, etc. My sons love it there. There are quite a few boys in the program. It is called Northside Gymnastics.
Hayley,
ReplyDeleteThat is really cool! How in the world did you get started in sparring?
Hi, my name is Leo. One intersting thing about me is that over the summer i worked at Six Flags in St. Louis. It was a very fun job and i got to work in the games area. The best part was that i learned how to juggle, so if anyone wants to learn let me know.
ReplyDeleteI have been active in 4-H for 10 years now. Many people don't know what that is but its somewhat FFA if that helps. Every summer I raise a market chicken and sell it at the auction at the end of the fair. The most I have made is $850 :)
ReplyDeleteHello, my name is Leigh-Anne. I have been on varsity track and field since my freshman year of high school. I loved throwing very much until I had a different coach every year. I quit my senior year because my coach was anti-social. I could have won state but now I am all about bowling!
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Lindsey McCulley. One thing that not many people know about me is that I am terrified of veins and disgusted by milk. In my biology classes in high school, every time we learned about arteries and veins I would get very dizzy and my stomach would get queasy! And with the milk: when I was little my mom would make me drink a baby glass of milk every night. I couldn't leave the table until i drank the whole glass. I would cry and gag until finally i drank it! to this day i cant even look at milk without getting grossed out.
ReplyDeleteMrs. Bishop- thanks for the info on the gym. I'll have to look into it.
ReplyDeleteLindsey McC- I don't know why, but being grossed out by milk completely cracks me up! We only drink ice cold skim milk at our house, and lots of it.
Hi. My name is Ashley Creer. Umm one intersesting fact I guess would be that I have been to Germany three times, but do not know the German language?
ReplyDeleteKayla, my mom had a kidney stone once and it totally scared the crap out of me. I was little but I remember having to go to the hospital with my uncle because my mom and dad were already there and I was just terrified! Hospitals have ALWAYS been a huge fear of mine.
ReplyDeleteAshley... I think that is awesome! I have only been out of the country one time... and it was a cruise so I dont really count it! I always wanted to go to Germany, because I have a lot of German heritage!
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ReplyDeleteHello. My name is John and when I was 18 I played baseball in Aruba.
ReplyDeletehello this is Adam Krefski, I am in your Tuesday 11 oclock class. I have been trying to figure out where I have to blog but cant find it this is the only thing I could find, but I guess we will talk about it more on class Tuesday. To tell the truth my paretns want me to get into teaching because they said I would get summers and weekends off! which I wouldnt mind. But I also want to be a high school or college hockey coach, so i think this profession could help me achieve that!
ReplyDeleteand I know we have to comment on someones post and I dont see anyone that is in my class. But hey John that is pretty cool that you got to play baseball in Aruba, thats a lifetime experience!
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